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Actomyosin contraction induces droplet motility
Thomas Le Goff, Benno Liebchen, Davide Marenduzzo
While cell crawling on a solid surface is relatively well understood, and relies on substrate adhesion, some cells can also swim in the bulk, through mechanisms that are still larg…
Micro-flock patterns and macro-clusters in chiral active Brownian disks
Demian Levis, Benno Liebchen
Chiral active particles (or self-propelled circle swimmers) feature a rich collective behavior, comprising rotating macro-clusters and micro-flock patterns which consist of phase-s…
Phoretic Interactions Generically Induce Dynamic Clusters and Wave Patterns in Active Colloids
Benno Liebchen, Davide Marenduzzo, Michael E. Cates
We introduce a representative minimal model for phoretically interacting active colloids. Combining kinetic theory, linear stability analyses, and a general relation between self-p…
Motility of active nematic films driven by "active anchoring"
Matthew L. Blow, Marco Aqil, Benno Liebchen +1
We provide a minimal model for an active nematic film in contact with both a solid substrate and a passive isotropic fluid, and explore its dynamics in one and two dimensions using…
The Rotating Vicsek Model: Pattern Formation and Enhanced Flocking in Chiral Active Matter
Benno Liebchen, Demian Levis
We generalize the Vicsek model to describe the collective behaviour of polar circle swimmers with local alignment interactions. While the phase transition leading to collective mot…